Video Highlights:
00:14 – So you’ve got a bay window, what blinds can you put on them?
00:27 – Bay window pre blind installation
00:47 – Bay window with screen blind down
01:01 – Bay window with screen blind halfway
02:15 – The importance of good advice
02:34 – Summary
Video Transcription
What type of blinds can you put on a bay window
Hi I’m Jason from the company Blockout Blinds and today I’m going to talk about putting dual roller blinds on a bay window.
00:14 – So you’ve got a bay window, what blinds can you put on them?
Well you’ve got a few options, however not always everything works. So I’m going to through an example where dual roller blinds on a bay window did work out.
00:27 – Bay window pre blind installation
So let’s have a look at the before photo and here you can see a photo of a bay window and yes the installers van is outside there. So we decided to put some dual rollers on this window because the clients wanted the ability to have the screen down for privacy and the blockout down for light when they need it.
00:47 – Bay window with screen blind down
So let’s take a look at the first photo with the blinds on. Here you can see we’ve got the dual roller blinds in the down position and there are six blinds. You have the three windows, the middle the left and the right and each window has two blinds on it.
01:01 – Bay window with screen blind halfway
Let’s take a look at the next photo here and you can see the blinds half way down. Now when you are putting dual roller blinds on a bay window you have to consider the gaps between the roller blinds. Now depending on how thick your frame is on the bay is going to determine if you can do dual rollers or not. If you haven’t got enough room you’re going to be able to see out through the dual rollers.
In fact in this photo here we’ve put the blockout closest into the room (on the inside) and the screens on the back against the window. The reason we have done that is because it brings the two blinds closer together where they meet up in the corner of the bay. This is to minimise the light coming through from outside. So that’s why we brought them into the room.
The only downside of that is you can see with the blockout blinds on the left and the right edges is that it does sit a bit further away from the architrave, creating a bit more gap at the side. So you need to work out the gap between the blind versus the gap from the blind sitting into the room a bit more and weigh up what best works for you.
There is more than one way you can do it but that is the way we decided to do it on this window.
02:15 – The importance of good advice
Once again it just highlights the importance of your design consultant actually knowing what they are talking about. Because we can set this window up 4,5 or 6 different ways with the same blinds and each option will have slightly different reasons for doing it, but if you get it wrong you are going to know about it because of the light or it just won’t look right.
02:34 – Summary
So there you go, dual roller blinds on a bay window, I hope I’ve been of some help to you today.
